Posted on 11/05/2007 2:29:05 PM PST by BlackVeil
Eight Victorian teenage boys who took part in the filming of a sexual assault on a 17-year-old girl have avoided youth detention.
The girl was filmed performing oral sex on two boys, had her hair set alight, was spat at and urinated on during the incident at a park at Werribee, in Melbourne's outer-west, in June last year.
At a Children's Court on Monday, a judge told the boys they treated the victim in a cruel and callous manner and described their behaviour as cowardly and brutal.
"It was a sustained attack by a pack of young men upon a vulnerable young woman," he said.
He ordered all the boys - aged between 15 and 17 at the time of offending - to participate in a rehabilitation program for male adolescents about positive sexuality.
All except one of the boys had convictions recorded against them. The judge placed six of the boys on youth supervision orders for between 12 and 18 months and two of the boys were placed on probation for 12 months.
He said that if it was not for their guilty pleas and willingness to participate in rehabilitation they would have been at "significant risk" of serving time in youth detention.
Each of the boys had previously pleaded guilty to procuring sexual penetration by intimidation, making child pornography and assault.
The judge said he also took into account they had no prior convictions and their youth.
A DVD of the attack - which was titled 'C**t the Movie' - was distributed throughout the community, the court heard.
The 16-year-old who filmed the DVD and the two youths - both 17 - who were involved in the sexual assault each received 18-month youth supervision orders and had convictions recorded against them.
A 16-year-old boy was the only youth to avoid a conviction and was placed on a 12-month probation order after the judge found he did not directly engage in the sexual or physical assaults and had good insight into his offending.
The judge said the victim had organised to meet two of the boys at a Werribee train station on the day of the attack and had no idea a group of at least 11 boys was meeting her there.
He said the girl sustained significant emotional and psychological trauma from the incident and this was compounded by the filming and distribution of the DVD.
The judge said placing the boys in a rehabilitation program was not the "easy option".
He said the program would involve the boys and their families engaging in individually tailored treatment over about nine months.
The program was very successful in protecting the community, changing sexual offenders' attitudes and behaviour and ensuring they did not reoffend, he said.
The maximum penalty for the offences is three years in youth detention.
No parties involved in a Children's Court hearing can be identified.
Ack! You are right. That’s a freaky thing to say.
If I were the girl’s father, I would be in jail right now.
“was”
Yah. From that wierd statement in the article about being upset by the improper terminology “intellectually disabled” versus “developmentally disabled” the father sounds like he is possibly part of the problem and unlikely to do anything that would require individual action, choice, or courage. I don’t know that I would take vengeance into my own hands if my daughter were tortured, raped, filmed during it, the film posted on the internet, and then the rapists set free by the criminal justice system.
“If I were the girl’s father, I would be in jail right now.”
Nonsense, proper planning is the key.
“I don’t know that I would take vengeance into my own hands if my daughter were tortured, raped, filmed during it, the film posted on the internet, and then the rapists set free by the criminal justice system.”
People seem to have this thing against vigilantes but I think its time is coming. The courts get their power from the people and not the reverse. Our courts are increasingly refusing to exercise their power properly. Cases like this are proof the courts are in decline.
I don’t think I could have taken the time...
I would get a video camera and a bunch of tattooed, man-loving ex-cons, and I would film them abusing, one by one, each and every one of these animals.
Then I would turn it into a DVD and call it “BITCH - the Movie” and distribute it to the friends of these boys.
And I would tell the judge I was really, really sorry.
...but that’s just me.
Yeah, but would you ever break the smile as you said it?
Have you ever been quoted accurately by the media?
Just a thought....
That'll teach 'em.
We really ought to bring back the whipping post.
...have to ask who was supposed to be keeping an eye on her. On a broader note, I think we can look to Saudi Arabia or Singapore for good examples of more appropriate types of punishments for these thugs...
developmentally delayed or with learning disabilities or...whatever
I know someday this kind of “justice” will enrage the wrong Dad, and it will happen.
I hate to be this judge when he stands before the final White Throne Judgment at God’s feet.
Judges must think that the general public is a bunch of morons. Who wouldn’t pretend to be sorry???
These perverts need to be named listed and noted so that no decent Dad will ever let their daughters marry these criminals. What kind of sick men will these animals become?? What future horrors will they commit???
“He said that if it was not for their guilty pleas and willingness to participate in rehabilitation they would have been at “significant risk” of serving time in youth detention.”
Ya, that’ll teach ‘em. Maybe they also could throw their umbrellas out the window and pray for rain.
Read a few posts above where her dad makes a point at saying she isn’t retarded, just has a developmental problem. Whatever her problem, this is something that will make it 100 times worse. I really wish someone would beat the living s-— out of the animals who did this.
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